“I would like to play the doubles with Carlos Alcaraz at the Paris Olympic Games.” Rafael Nadal It would be amazing, no? (via @marca)
Rafael Nadal has acknowledged Novak Djokovic "is the best in history"
ATPWednesday, 20 September 2023 at 19:00
Rafael
Nadal congratulated Novak Djokovic on his victory at the US Open and stated
that he is the greatest in history.
The Serbian
recently secured his 24th Grand Slam title, surpassing Nadal's 22 and Roger
Federer's 20. As the new world No. 1, Djokovic continues to demonstrate his
ongoing dominance, while with the Spanish player nearing retirement, it seems unlikely
for Nadal to catch up:
“I believe
that numbers are numbers and statistics are statistics, and in that sense, I
think he has better numbers than mine and that is indisputable,” Nadal said to
AS in a interview.
“I do not
have an ego big enough to try to disguise a reality that is not. This is the
truth. The rest are tastes, inspiration, sensations that one or the other may
transmit to you, that you may like one or the other more.
“I think
that with respect to titles, Djokovic is the best in history and there is
nothing to discuss in that. Then, as always, everyone can combine the story as
they wish, saying that I have suffered many injuries – bad luck for me or bad
luck that I had my body this way.
“He has had
another one and in some ways that is also part of the sport. I congratulate him
for everything he is achieving and that does not cause me any kind of
frustration,” he said.
“I have
said it when I was the one who won the most Slams, I said it when we were tied
and I say it now that I am behind. I am not going to be the one who tries,
through a personal struggle, to want to be what I am not. What is, is, and what
is not, is not.
“I say
this, I am very satisfied with everything I have done,” Nadal added.
15-times
French Open champion acknowledged that he hopes to play in the Paris Olympics
in 2024:
“For the Games, on a personal level, I would
like to play them one more time,” he said.
“Everyone
knows that I have always been a lover of the Games. I have lived incredible
moments of co-existence, of seeing what sport is in its pure essence.
“Regarding
the fact of playing doubles with Carlos, I have not had the slightest
conversation with him in that regard. But I would also like [it] and it would
be a good motivation, another incentive for me to be able to close my Olympic
cycle playing with Carlos, with everything he is achieving, with the young
people and with the great future he has ahead of him.”
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